Banner Graphic, Volume 11, Number 106, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 January 1981 — Page 7
Tigers 2nd in Shannon tourney
DELAWARE, OHIO-DePau-w's Tigers broke even over the weekend, taking second place at the four-team Frank Shannon Invitational basketball tourney at Ohio Wesleyan. DePauw edged Grove City, 72-71 in the .semi-final, and lost to the host Bishops, 93-82 in the finals. Ohio Wesleyan won the right to meet DePauw by defeating Alma College. 65-61 in the other semi-final. Grove City took the consolation game. 82-77 in overtime. FRIDAY NIGHT’S game was the first for the Tigers in three weeks and the layoff showed in the early going. After taking a quick 6-2 lead. DePauw fell behind to a smaller, but quicker Grove City squad The Pennsylvania team took a 35-31 halftime lead, and had as much as a 13 point lead. 50-37, with 13 minutes to go in the game After Tiger coach Page Cotton took a time-out, junior guard Tom Kmak came off the bench and got DePauw going.
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DAVE HATHAWAY: Nets 19 for Tigers
Wild card winners
Neither weather nor Cleveland could stop Oakland
By DAVE ANDERSON c. 1981 N.Y. Times News Service CLEVELAND Beyond the open end of Cleveland Stadium, the ice on Lake Erie resembled that of the Arctic Circle flat and white and vaporous in the distance. Gusts of up to 38 miles per hour howled off that ice, turning the 1-degree temperature into a reported wind-chill factor of 37 degrees below zero. Even polar bears know enough to hibernate in weather like this. But Sunday 77.655 rational human beings did not. Mostly loyalists of the Cleveland Browns, they sat in this decrepit old ballpark and watched a football game. Outside their bodies were bundled in various layers of fur, wool or nylon. Inside. many were stiff from various liquid anti-freezes. Up behind the frosted glass in the press box, A 1 Davis, the managing general genius of the Oakland Raiders, huddled in a black coat over a silver gray turtleneck, peered through his sunglasses and pointed above. “The Guy Upstairs,” he proclaimed, “is deciding this one.” As the National Football League’s most celebrated rebel, Davis no longer believes in Pete Rosell, but apparently he defers to another supreme being beside himself. And just when it appeared that the Raiders were about to blow a 14-12 lead in the final minute, Davis' prayers were answered when Mike Davis, the Raiders' strong safety, intercepted Brian Sipe’s seconddown pass in the end zone with only 41 seconds remaining. Moments later the Raiders were hurrying toward their locker room.
Cowboys climb back into saddle and break Falcons
By WILLIAM N. WALLACE c. 1981 N.Y. Times News Service ATLANTA The Atlanta Falcons thought they had the Dallas •Cowboys tucked away for good as the final quarter began here Sunday in a National Conference divisional playoff game. The • Falcons had gone ahead by 10 points, 27-17, and through most of ’the three periods they were the dominant team. Then they let the Cowboys slip away. With Danny White’s deft passing the key factor the Cowboys stormed back to score two touchdowns and win, 30-27. The final score came in the last minute on a White to Drew Pearson pass for 23 yards. The game turned around in the last 10 minutes of play as the Cowboys mounted two long scoring drives with White passing on almost every down. The Falcons were unable to mount an effective pass rush and their offense could not come up with a drive or a first down to keep the Cowboys from scoring again. The victory moved Dallas into the semifinals of the National Football League’s postseason tournament. The Cowboys next will play the Eagles Sunday in Philadelphia for the conference championship That will be the third game of the season between these two teams, the Eagles, the eastern division champions, and the Cowboys, the surviving NFC wild-card team. The conference champion will then play the American Conference winner, Oakland or San Diego, in the Super Bowl at New * Orleans or .lan 25
Neese key in Wabash tournament victory CRAWFORDSVILLE--Greg Neese was named Most Valuable Player of the Colonial City Basketball Classic at Mt. Vernon, Ohio while leading the Wabash Little Giants to the tournament title. NEESE, A Cloverdale High School graduate, ignited a second half rally for an 84-78 win over Grove City College and an 81-76 win over Capital University. The senior guard is enjoying what might be called his finest year at Wabash, scoring 13.7 points per game for the 7-2 Little Giants and is passing out about four assists per game. He had 11 in two games at Mt. Vernon. NEESE’S 13.7 scoring average is second only to 6-8 Wabash center Pete Metzelaars, who averages 20.2 points per outing.
Kmak, who was the starting guard early in the season, had his best shooting night while directing the Tiger offense into scoring ten 12 unanswered points to make it a one point game, 50-49. With the score tied at 54-all, Ebe Cotton scored and was
fouled going inside. The free throw missed, but Ron Huser grabbed the high rebound and layed it in for a 58-54 DePauw lead. The Tigers went ahead by as much as eight, before Grove City cut the margin, but could come no closer than one. KMAK lIAD A career high 20
Notre Dame committed 23 errors, but won game
By JOHN NELSON AP Sports Writer Coach Eddie Biedenbach is in his third season of rebuilding the basketball program at tiny Davidson College in North Carolina, but his schedule is making it look mighty tough. Last Thursday, Davidson lost an 80-73 heartbreaker to eighthranked Wake Forest, and Sunday, a little worse for the wear, the Wildcats dropped an 87-67 decision to fourth-ranked Notre Dame. “We can’t be in games against teams like Wake Forest and Notre Dame and make as many mistakes as we did today,” Biedenbach lamented after the loss to Notre Dame dropped Davidson’s record to 4-7. Davidson committed 21 turnovers against Notre Dame, now
“They said we couldn’t win in this weather,” one of them was shouting. “We couldn’t win in this weather.” Now the Raiders will try to win the AFC championship in San Diego next Sunday but if Sipe had not thrown that pass, perhaps the Raiders would not have won. In another of their last-second scenarios, the Browns had moved close enough for a field goal attempt. They had second down, nine yards to go, at the Raiders’ 13-yard line. Most observers expected the Browns to run on second and third down, then go for the winning field goal. Even if they did not get any closer, Don Cockroft would be kicking from 30 yards, usually a reasonable distance but not reasonable on this Sundav. “Not a gut cinch,” was how Sam Rutigliano, the Browns’ coach, described it. “Not at the open end with the wind blowing.” Instead, the Browns’ coach told Sipe to call a pass play in which Ozzie Newsome, the tight end who had caught four of the quarterback’s 13 completions, would run a crossing pattern through the end zone the call that now will be debated by Browns’ boosters for years. “They probably wanted to catch us off guard,” Mike Davis was saying now. “But as soon as the ball was snapped, I read pass.” He moved across the frozen field to cover Newsome, but as so many others did on each play Sunday, he slipped. “I was lucky, though,” Davis said. “Burgess Owens went with Newsome just enough for me to recover and get back there.” Owens, the free safety traded to the Raiders by the New York
After the Falcons took a 10-point lead on Tim Mazzetti’s second field goal with 6:37 left, the Cowboys struck back quickly, narrowing the deficit to 27-24, scoring on a 14-yard pass from White to Pearson, the fifth play of a 62-yard drive. The Cowboys kicked off, held, and got the ball on their 29-yard line with 1: 48 to go. White, escaping a blitz, completed a sideline pass to Butch Johnson for 21 yards. Then two screen passes, to Preston Pearson and Tony Dorsett, gained 27 more. White then completed the attack with the game-winning pass to Pearson. The 17 points scored by the Falcons in the first half came from a 38-yard field goal by Tim Mazzetti, a 60-yard touchdown pass from Steve Bartowski to Alfred Jenkins and a 1-yard run by Lynn Cain, the fullback. The long passes were an embellishment to Atlanta’s game plan, which stressed the running attack led by William Andrews, the halfback, and Cain. In the first half the Falcons outgained the Cowboys, 255 yards to 128, and the Dallas offensive plan, built around Dorsett, was blunted. Dorsett gained only 15 yards in the half. Atlanta went ahead, 10-0, in the first quarter with a field goal by Rafael Septien and a touchdown, but Dallas tied the score with the help of a fumble by Bartowski. White’s first-down pass to the tight end, Billy Joe DuPree, was good for 19 yards, and six plays later DuPree caught another pass for the score from the 5. Luck was involved in the second Falcon touchdown, which gave them a 17-10 lead at halftime. On the first play of a series late in the second quarter, Bartowski passed deep down the mid
points to lead all scorers. Troy Langton had 12 and freshman Dave Hathaway added 10. The big statistic was rebounding where DePauw had a whopping 47-25 margin. Joe Dixon led the Tigers with 13 boards. In the championship tilt, the story was the same in the early going, but this time, the Tigers were in too deep a hole. Ohio Wesleyan was in command from the outset, and a five minute DePauw dry spell led the way to a 32-10 Bishop lead with eight minutes to play. The Tigers finally got untracked, but had too much ground to gain in too little time. Wesleyan led at the half 50-31, and DePauw got no closer than ten in the final two minutes. DAVE HATHAWAY played by far his best game as a Tiger, leading the team with 19 points and grabbing a team high eight rebounds. Kmak and Ron Huser both came off the bench to score 13 points each, Greg Notestine had 12 and Langston 10.
7-1, but the Irish turned the ball over 23 times themselves. Forward Kelly Tripucka led the Irish with 21 points, missing only four of his 14 field goal attempts. Davidson, with an enrollment of only 1,300, had its most recent glory years in 1969, finishing N 0.5 in the nation, and 1970, finishing 15th. Biedenbach, however, is trying to turn around a team that went 8-18 last season and finished last in the Southern Conference. So, he has scheduled Wake Forest and North Carolina State from the Atlantic Coast Conference and independents Notre Dame and South Carolina to supplement his conference schedule. Davidson trailed by four, at 17-13, early in the first half, but
“The first half against Ohio Wesleyan was the worst half of basketball we’ve played all year,” Cotton said. “In the second half we did better, but you can’t win games playing just 20 minutes, Ohio Wesleyan pushed the ball down the floor and made easy baskets. We don’t have what it takes at the start of the game to win. The mental preparation isn’t there. “TOME KMAK HAD a good tournament and Dave Hathaway played a super second ballgame,” Cotton said, “But we have to play better in the first half.” The Tigers are now 2-6 and are off until Thursday, when they host Albion at 7:30 p.m. in Bowman Gym. I)<*PAllW<X2> Hathaway 7 5-7 5 19; Dixon t 0-0 I X: Langston 5 0-1 .7 10; Notestine 4 1-5 0 12; Nadhoume 0 0-1 4 0: lluser 5 5-6 4 15; Krauss 51-2 57; Kmak6 1-20 15; ( nttnn 000 0 0. Totals Ft! 51 FT 11-24 PF 25 (tllto WF.SI.KYAN (95) tiianakopoulous X 6-7 5 22; Denhart 6 5-X I 17; MeCaughev X 5-X 1 21; Stead 1 1-1 1 9; Moore 5 2-2 1 X; Alberts 6 2-2 5 14; Morris 10-0 I 2. Totals FT 56 FT2I-2X PF 25.
the Wildcats turned the ball over eight times in 11 possessions to help Notre Dame score eight straight points. If Davidson’s recent upset attempts fell short, those of Kansas, Kansas State and Texas Christian did not. Kansas edged sixth-ranked North Carolina 5655 at Lawrence; Kansas State gage Coach Jack Hartman his 200th victory at the school with a 67-47 upset of Louisville, and Texas Christian dealt 11thranked Texas A&M its third consecutive loss, 56-51, all on Saturday. Also on Saturday, top-ranked DePaul rolled over Furman 7865; second-ranked Oregon State got by N 0.14 Arizona State 7167; third-rated Virginia defeated Virginia Tech 64-51.
Jets during the off-season, saw the ball in the air. “The first thing I thought was ‘Oh, no, Newsome’s got it.” Owens said. "But then I looked over and saw Mike catch it.” “There the ball was,” said Davis, who had moved in front of Newsome and leaped flat for the ball. “And there was Mike.” “Owens,” said Newsome, “forced me to go deeper than I wanted and enabled Davis to come underneath and intercept.” That’s how A 1 Davis’s colleague, “the Guy Upstairs,” decided this game played on what looked like a kindergarten fingerpainting splotches of faded green grass, brown dirt and small slicks of ice surrounded by snow. But the Raiders had come prepared for the coldest game in their history and for one of the coldest days in pro football history. When the Green Bay Packers defeated the Dallas Cowboys, 21-17, on Bart Starr’s one-yard quarterback sneak in the 1967 NFC championship, the temperature in Green Bay at the kickoff was 13 degrees below zero. Several members of the Packers, however, claim that they felt the cold much more in their 16-7 victory over the New York Giants for the 1962 NFC title when an icy wind turned Yankee Stadium into a tundra. “But when we knew it was going to be cold,” A 1 Davis explained, “our people called the Arctic Command to find out if there was any cold weather clothing that we could buy to help us. We always do that. We always try to be ready.” As the Raiders thawed out in their locker room, their trainer. George Anderson, talked about their cold-weather gear.
die to Jenkins, who was covered by Aaron Mitchell and Dennis Thurman. The three leaped for the ball, which bounced off Thurman’s chest into the hands of Jenkins, who fell at the Dallas 16. Bartowski’s next pass was good for 13 yards to Junior Miller, the tight end, who was tackled at the 1. Cain scored on the next play. The Cowboys were in trouble in the third period, when the Falcons hammered away at their defense in an impressive 70yard drive to a touchdown. Andrews and Cain ripped through the middle of the Cowboy forces, moving Randy White, the allpro tackle, out of the way. There was nothing fancy about the drive: it was based on sheer power. The running plays set up a pass to Andrews, who came out of the backfield, which was good for 12 yards and the touchdown. After Mazzetti’s conversion kick, the Falcons had what seemed a comfortable 14-point lead. The Cowboys had tried a variety of complex plays, such as halfback passes, tight-end reverses and screen passes. But not much fooled the steady Atlanta defense, whose four linebackers covered everything that moved. The last quarter began with the Cowboys on the Falcon 25 after good runs by Dorsett. White’s pass to Tony Hill moved the ball to the 1, and Robert Newhouse, the fullback, scored The drive covered 85 yards in eight plays, and took five minutes Septien’s conversion left Dallas behind by 24-17.
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Daniel Young of South Putnam High School was one of three West Central Conference runners named to the Hoosier Harrier All-State cross county team. Young, County champion and winner of the Greencastle sectional and Terre Haute regional meets, was picked to the class Ateam. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields)
January 5,1981, The Putnam County Banner Graphic
South Putnam reschedules events In an effort to add variety, and give fans an opportunity to see the South Putnam varsity athletic teams in action. South Putnam High School Athletic Director Jim Huter announced a series of schedule changes for this week. South Putnam will host Cascade in a varsity wrestling mat ch Tuesday afteronnon at 2 p.m., convocation style, before the student body. Huter said students would be admitted free, but adults would be charged the regular admission price. Adults are invited and encourage to attend and back the Eagle wrestlers. THE SOUTH PUTNAM girls varsity basketball team will replace the boys junior varsity on the Friday and Saturday program. The Eagle girls, 8-3 Putnam County Tournament champions, play Eminence Friday night at 6:30 p.m. prior to the boys varsity contest against the visiting Eels. The South Putnam girls and Cloverdale girls collide Satur day night at 6:30 p.m. prior to the varsity boys basketball contest between the two schools. Both the Friday and Saturday night boys varsity games begin at 8 p.m. The two junior vasity teams do not lose a game because of the rescheduling. South Putnam’s girls and boys junior varsity squads travel to Eminence Jan. 8 and will host the Cloverdale junior varsity teams Jan. 12. THE SIX-TEAM South Putnam Invitational Swimming Meet is set to begin at 9 a.m. Saturday morning in the Eagle pool. Teams participating will be Greencastle, North Putnam. Crawfordsville, Plainfield. Southmont and South Put- £ nam. Admission is $1.50 for adults and $1 for students. Thursday South Putnam Junior varsity girls and boys at Eminence. / basketball ‘ Friday Eminence girls at South Putnam. 6:30 p.m. Saturday Cloverdale girls at South Putnam. 6:30 p.m., basketball
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Phelps looking at NCAA CHARLOTTE, N.C. <AP) r Notre Dame’s Digger Phelps, always sharply critical of dor-ference-level postseason tournaments, says the basketball teams that participate in such affairs can expect only two results: fatigue and money. Phelps, whose fourth-ranked Irish defeated Davidson Sunday in Charlotte, said before the game that the NCAA’s change of format, going to a 48-team playoff schedule, has caused drastic alterations in coaching philosophy. His own philosophy, Phelps said, is that of the future. “You play the toughest schedule you can find. Play before hostile crowds. Break your road trips so you don’t wear yourself out. “Take your six or seven losses and then be ready in March,” Phelps said, referring to the NCAA playoffs. But conference postseason tournaments, such as the profitable tourney held by the Atlantic Coast Conference, have no place in that philosophy, he said. The Notre Dame coach said the Pac-10, the Big Ten and the independent teams have dominated the NCAA playoffs in the last two years. “With the other schools, the ones with postseason tournaments, it’s a matter of mental fatigue. By they time they get to the playoffs or the Final Four, they’ve burned themselves out The way it is now all those conferences that play postseason tournaments play them only for money,” he said. “Look, the ACC got five NCAA berths last year. What diference did the ACC Tourna ment make? None. “Right now. the pressure u on (undefeated) DePaul, Vir ginia and Oregon State, not dr teams like us or North Carolina or Kentucky.”
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